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2006 Archives

Not all entries from the pre-Movable Type (2005) days
have been republished. You don't have to thank me.

January, 2006

Marathon Training Week 3 of 26
2005Q4 Quarter in Review
Rejection 159
Rejection 158
Rejections 158 and 159
Marathon Training Week 4 of 26
Rejection 160
Marathon Training Week 5 of 26
Asimov's Science Fiction Hearts Telltale
Marathon Training Week 6 of 26: Eight Miles!
Go, Speed Reader, Go!
Rejection 161
Rejection 162
Submission 255
The Clarion Application
First Catmas
Marathon Training Week 7 of 26: Nine Miles!
Submission 256
Rejection 163

February, 2006

Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro
Marathon Training Week 8 of 26: Ten Miles!
Studios/Kartania/Wonderland 10 Year Celebration!
Rejection 164
Guidevines Launch!
Submission 257
Marathon Training Week 9 of 26: Twelve Miles!
Clarion Training Schedule
Submission 258
Submission 259
Marathon Training Week 10 of 26: Fuel
Guest Blogging at Toby's House
Rejection 165
Balloon Animals - Online Screening
Octavia Butler 1947-2006
Submission 260
Telltale Turns 2, 24-Hour Freebie
Marathon Training Week 11 of 26: 14 Miles

March, 2006

Submission 261
Submission 262
Marathon Training Week 12 of 26
Rejection 166
Marathon Training Week 13 of 26A: Postponement
Rejection 167
Clarion Training Month 1 of 4
Rejection 168
March Marches On
Submission 263

April, 2006

Rejection 169
Acceptance 60 - CLARION!
Rewrite Request 2
Loki - Glamour Shots with a Camera Phone
Submission 264 (also: Sub 265)
Rejection 170
Acceptance 61 - BILSANG!
Submission 266
Rejection 171
Otherwise Pandemonium Screening at Duke
Clarion 2006 Roster

May, 2006

Acceptance 62 - THE FLORIDA REVIEW!
Rejection 172
Paying for Clarion
Narcissism and the Wannabe Clarionite
Acceptance 63 - ASIMOV'S!
Submissions 267 and 268
Submission 269
Clarion Training Months 2&3 of 4
Rejection 173
Clarion Auctions Take 2
Submission 270
I Am Mike Resnick's Bitch
Submission 272
Submission 271
Submission 273
Final Clarion Auction

June, 2006

Trade Up - Our Firefox Commercial
Rejection 174 - WotF
Submission 274
AWS Guitar Tuner, Now Ad-Free
Rejection 175 - F&SF
Submissions 275 and 276
Locus Awards - Clarion Represent!
Carrboro Hill - Community Wiki Launch
Submissions 277 and 278
Clarion Training - Month 4 of 4
Clarion West Journals
Untitled Pretention Pontificated by a Passive Voice
My Luck is Back in Balance
As Ready as I'll Ever Be
Clarion My Wayward Son 1
Clarion Week 1: Getting There is Half the Something
Clarion Week 1: My First Clarion Story
Clarion Week 1: Pre-Critique Thoughts
Clarion Week 1: Chip and Me
Clarion Week 1: TGIFFFFFFF

July, 2006

Rejections 176 & 177 - Analog & RoF
Clarion Week 1: Superman Returns Mini-Review
Clarion Week 2: My Second Clarion Story
Rejection 178 - Interzone
Clarion Week 2: Monday morning jibberish
Clarion Week 2: This Round to Swanwick
Meanwhile, Back in Chapel Hill
Clarion Week 2: Writer in Morning
Clarion Week 2: Clarion Cuisine
Clarion Week 2: Clarion Theme Song at ISBW
Clarion Week 2: The Cyclotron
Clarion Week 3: Proof of Asimov's
Clarion Week 3: My Third Clarion Story
Clarion Week 3: Chess with Kress
Clarion Week 3: Nancy Kress and the Me of 2003
Rejection 179 - Strange Horizons
Clarion Week 3: Chess with Kress REMATCH!
Clarion Week 4: Hell Week Begins
Clarion Week 4: Tobias Buckell Visit
Clarion Week 4: My Contribution to Hell Week
Clarion Week 4: My Fourth Clarion Story & The Clarion Tree
Clarion Week 4: Jamming with Joe Haldeman
Clarion Week 4: Misc Photos
Clarion Interlude: Saugatuck
Clarion Week 5: Happy Birthday, Roomie!
Clarion Week 5: Jim C Hines and the Picnic
Clarion Week 5: Higher-Res Photodump
Clarion Week 5: Ten More Days...
Clarion Week 5: My Fifth Clarion Story
Clarion Week 5: Ouch
Clarion Week 5: A Laugh Observed and The Happy Dance
Clarion Week 5: Fancy Dress Party
Submission 279

August, 2006

Clarion Week 6: Our Final Clarion Story
Clarion Week 6: Kelly Link's The Cannon
Clarion Week 6: Week Six Ain't Over But
Clarion Week 6: Impromptu Twelfth Night Reading
Rejection 180
Clarion Week 6: Kelly Link and Holly Black Bring the Pain.
Submission 280
Clarion Week 6: Always Bet on Black (in Mafia)!
Clarion Week 6: Graduation 2006
Clarion Epilogue: They Remember Me
Clarion Epilogue: Health and Motivation
Thirty
Holly Black-Inspired Meme.
So Dark Matter Exists
Clarion Epilogue: The Business of Writing
Submission 281
Clarion Epilogue: Imagine What They'll Do With My Crossdressing Photos
New York Times Hearts Telltale Again
Pocket-Sized Prayer Trees on eBay
Kelly Link's "The Girl Detective"
Rejection 181 - F&SF

September, 2006

Clarion Epilogue: Revisionist His Story
Connie Willis Wins Her Ninth Fiction Hugo
Rejections 182 & 183
Rejection 184
Submissions 282 and 283
Rejection 185
Clarion Epilogue: Final Photodump
Young Goodman Brown
Submissions 284 through 291
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 1 of 13
LiveJournal Crossposting!
Clarion Epilogue: Look Who's Sucking Blood Now
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 2 of 13
Submissions 292, 293, and 294
Rejection 186 - WOTF

October, 2006

Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 3 of 13
Social Phobia at Spoken Alexandria
October Gameplan
Rejections 189-191, Pulled/No Reply 49
Pulled/No Reply 48
Rejections 187 and 188
Submission 295
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 4 of 13
Eddie from Ohio on The Colbert Report?
Rejection 192 - F&SF
Submission 296
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 5 of 13
NaNoWriMo is GoWriMo
So Put That In Your Talent Pipe And Smoke It
Submission 297
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 6 of 13
Submission 298
Update on Submission 291
Submission 300
Rejection 193 (Implied)
Submission 299
Rejection 194
Acceptance 64 - Carrboro Film Festival
Submissions 301 & 302
Submissions 303 & 304
Another Milestone Called Thirty

November, 2006

NaNoWriMo Day 1
NaNoWriMo Day 2
NaNoWriMo Day 3
Rejection 195
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 7 of 13
NaNoWriMo Days 4 and 5
NaNoWriMo Day 6
NaNoWriMo Day 7
Rejection 196 & Submission 305
NaNoWriMo Day 8
NaNoWriMo Day 9
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 8 of 13
NaNoWriMo Day 10
NaNoWriMo Day 11
NaNoWriMo Day 12 - Finis
Rejection 197 & Submission 308
Submissions 306 & 307
The Morals of Chess, etc.
Newsletter Reboots
Rejection 198
Carrboro Film Fest Schedule
The Florida Review - Ordering Info
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 9 of 13
Oscar Winner Speaks Out
Rejection 200
Rejection 199 & Submission 309
Submissions 310 through 312
Rejection 201
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Week 10 of 13

December, 2006

Rejections 202-204 and Sub 313
Rejection 205
The First Noel (Webcomic)
YouTube
Carrboro Hill on MySpace
Submissions 314-318, Rejection 206
Find My Work and ComicSpace
Marathon Interlude: The Half - Weeks 11-13 of 13
Rejections 207-209, Subs 319-321
The Florida Review - Fall 2006
Clarion Epilogue: 2nd Podcast in February
Rejections 210-212, Subs 322-323
NaNoWriMo 2006 Epilogue
2006 Submission Log Cleanup, 2007 Targets



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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say.

Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.



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Submission Log
(as of June 11, 2008)

Subs in Play: 17
Total Subs: 528
Acceptances: 73*
Rejections: 392
Pulled/No Reply: 66
*Includes 25 non-slush sales (editors request me to write reviews, etc.)


Blog Archives
2008 - Clever Label TBA
2007 - BadYearNoCookie
2006 - Clarion! 1st Pro Sale!
2005 - Peers and Peerless
2004 - Telltale Launch
2003 - Dog bites, acting out
2002 - In my mind, I'm going...
2001 - Marriage, Macs, 1st Cons
2000 - Setback, Milestones
1999 - Engaged, Graduated
1998 - Creative Independence


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